The best app for automatic meeting minutes on iPhone

The short answer

Best overall: [Noter AI](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noter-ai-meeting-note-taker/id6747296459). It records meetings in the room on iPhone, iPad and Android, joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Webex with a bot, and on iPhone and iPad writes the minutes in a fixed layout you can send straight on or export to Word. It transcribes 60+ languages and costs $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year, flat.

The rest of the field splits into bot-first tools billed per seat (Fireflies.ai), individual plans with lower language counts (Otter.ai with 6), computer-only tools (Fathom) and apps that record through your computer without a bot (Granola).

All 6 minutes apps compared

Prices are from each company's pricing page on 23 September 2026.

#1: Noter AI

Noter AI is the app this site is about. Every recording gets a transcript, a summary, a detailed analysis and action items. On iPhone and iPad you can then reshape the same meeting into formal minutes with one tap.

The Minutes of meeting style always uses the same three sections, in the same order:

• Attendees. The people in the meeting, with their role when someone mentions it.
• Discussion points. The main topics, as short bullets.
• Action points. A table with an Action column and an Owner column, one row per action. When nobody was named, the owner reads TBD, so the gap is visible before the minutes go out.
• Word export keeps the table. Export to Word and the action points arrive as a real Word table you can edit and circulate. PDF and plain text work too.
• Names instead of Speaker 1. Rename the speakers once and the transcript shows real names.
• Any room, any call. Record a board or committee meeting on the phone in the middle of the table, or let the bot join Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or Webex from your synced Google or Outlook calendar.
• Minutes in the meeting's language. Transcription covers 60+ languages with automatic detection, including meetings that switch between two. The summary comes in the meeting's language or the one you choose, and the transcript translates into 46 languages.
• One flat price. $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year, with no per-seat charge and no cap on AI summaries.

The other five

• Otter.ai records in person from its iOS and Android apps, and its bot joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. It transcribes 6 languages. The free Basic plan stops each conversation at 30 minutes, and PDF and Word export start on Pro. See Noter AI vs Otter.ai.
• Fireflies.ai joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and more than ten other platforms, and its mobile app records in person. It is billed per seat: Pro is $18 a month, or $10 billed yearly, and Business is $29, or $19 billed yearly. The free plan limits AI summaries. See Noter AI vs Fireflies.
• Granola uses no bot. It captures your computer's audio on Mac and Windows, and its iPhone app takes notes in person. The free plan keeps 30 days of meeting history, and Business is $14 per user a month. See Noter AI vs Granola.
• Notta records a meeting from a phone or laptop in the room, joins Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex, and transcribes 58 languages. The free plan stops each conversation at 3 minutes and allows 10 AI summaries a month. See Noter AI vs Notta.
• Fathom runs on Mac and Windows computers and records Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls in 38 languages. It does not support phones yet, so it cannot record a meeting in a room. The free plan gives advanced summaries for the first 5 calls each month. See Noter AI vs Fathom.

Minutes, notes and action items

Minutes are the record you circulate and file: attendees, what was discussed and who owns what. Meeting notes are looser and mostly for yourself. An action-item list is only the tasks. Noter AI produces all three from the same recording, so you can send the minutes to the committee and keep the to-do list for yourself.

If you would rather write minutes by hand, copy the meeting minutes template or the board meeting minutes template. If tasks are all you need, see the best app for meeting action items.

How we picked

Each app was judged on the job of producing minutes someone else will read.

• It captures the meeting wherever it happens, in a room from a phone or on a video call.
• The output reads as minutes, with attendees, discussion points and actions with owners.
• It exports to a format people circulate, such as Word or PDF.
• It handles the meeting's language, including meetings that switch between two.
• What one person pays, taken from each company's pricing page on 23 September 2026.

Bottom line

For minutes you can send the same day, Noter AI covers every meeting you have: in a room on your iPhone, iPad or Android phone, or on Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex through the bot. On iPhone and iPad, the Minutes of meeting style gives you attendees, discussion points and an action table with owners, and the Word export keeps that table intact. At $69.99 a year it is about $5.83 a month, with a free plan to try the app and a free trial on every subscription.